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Re: Guile scanners and parsers
- To: Ian Grant <Ian dot Grant at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Guile scanners and parsers
- From: Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe at linux dot zrz dot TU-Berlin dot DE>
- Date: 14 Jul 2000 13:15:28 +0200
- Cc: djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se, guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <E13D34j-00014d-00@wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Ian Grant <Ian.Grant@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> > Hmm, every time you switch to another module, I think. So that
> > clients of Ian's tcl->scheme module can and will use a different
> > reader than the "normal" scheme reader.
> But this is "switching the scanner we are using to a different
> scanner" rather than "changing the way the scanner we are using
> works by changing its table".
> I agree that it would be great to have parsers and scanners generated by
> scheme code, but I wonder if it's on the critical path with respect to
> providing translators for other syntaxes.
Yes, okay, you're right. It's better to do one step after the other.
> It uses lex and yacc wrapped in a module. I want to do some more
> work on it but in the mean time if anyone is interested in the
> source then mail me.
> Ian
Jost